91st House District candidate profile: Democrat, Collene Lamonte

Collene Lamontecollenelamonte.com

Patrick CenterNovember 5, 2012 | WGVU

The very first sentence on the Deomocrat’s website reads, “Hello, I’m Collene Lamonte. I’m a teacher, not a politician.” That all changed when Republican leadership made cuts impacting students and teachers.

“They raided our education fund so that they could give away a $1.8 billion tax break to the largest corporations in our state right now. And they said that this is going to bring jobs to our state. I have not seen those jobs.”

Lamonte says it’s time to restore education funding that is critical to educating skilled workforce that will grow the state’s economy. Where would she find the money to make that happen?

“I’d like to see us get back to some tax incentive programs that were actually working. You know, when you look at our movie and film industry incentive program we saw movies and jobs that were brought here to our state.”

She’s explains there was multiplier affect. There was a creation of jobs supporting the state’s film industry.

When it comes to supporting the middle-class and seniors, Lamonte says she’d restore tax deductions and credits and the new tax on retirement income.